Clamp device



(No Mpdel.)

C. E. WORLINE.

Y CLAMP EEVIGE.` 4 No. 282,479.` Patented July 31, 1883,

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NITD STATES PATENT OFFICE.,

' CHAUNGEY E. 'WORLINE, OF RADNOR, OHIO.

CLAMP DEVICE.

" SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 282,479, dated July 31', 188s,-

, Application filed April 14,1883. (No model.)

To all whom, it may concern:

Be it known that I, GHAUNCEY E. Won- LINE, of Radnor, in the county of Delaware and State of Ohio, have invented a new and Improved Clamp Device, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

My invention consists of a simple contrivance for the construction of a clamp device also being adapted for a splice clamp for beams and other obj ects required to be clamped together.` Different parts of the clamp can `be extended in various directions to form various useful devices, as a novel contrivance of a weed-turning extension of said clamp for bending over and turning down the weeds and grass in advance of the plow mold-board, to cause them to be more effectually and completely covered in thefurrows, all as hereinafter fully described.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying responding parts in all thc ligures.

Figure 1 is a perspective view of my iml proved clamp andweed-turning extension and a portion of the beam of a plow, the latter being in dotted lines.` Fig. 2 is a transverse section of the plowbeam and front elevation of the clamp and extension. Fig. 3 is a perspective view, showing the application of a working loose, and a modied form of theweedturning extension First I make a link7 ci, preferably of round iron, a little longer than one ofthe vertical sides of the beam b, and connect the upper end with an eye, c, of an angle-rod, d, crossing two sides of the beam, and terminating at the lower edge of the opposite side of the beam in another eye, j', and having a rod, g,

g to turn half a revolution on its aXis. This rod g extends from eye f across the under side of the beam, and connects with link a by passing through the lower end of it, the connection beingv effected by swinging the link down over the projecting extension z of rod g,

which is bent more or less, as in Figs. 1 and 2, so that when the extension is turned up, as `in. Fig. 2, said link will swing under it, the said extension being to hold thelink fast when turned down, as in Figs. l and 3.

A fastening device consisting of a coil of wire, j, may be employed, if necessary, to prevent it from working loose by being slipped onto the extension z'. and hooked to any object, as the arm m ofa weed-turning eXtension but it is manifest that when so made the rod g and its extension i will draw the eye f and link a firmly against the sides of the plowbeam or other object to which the clamp is applied, and the friction will prevent the fast ening-rod from working loose.

lt will be seen that such a clamp will fasten a colter against the side of the plow-beam, if made with provision for a little space for the colter, and will clamp other objects, as two bars or timbers, together.

The fastening-rod g may have a bend at the middle to swing against the side of the beam when the rod comes to the fastening position to bind firmly against the beam.

Thelink a may terminate under the fastening-rod' gwhen the clamp alone is required; but for the purposes of a weed-turning extension for plows l prefer to make it of a long rod by bending the same in the middlerand twisting the members together in extension Z, beyond the link, from the beam downward, a

suitable distance, and then branch out each ing'the rods in suitable shapes, so that any one requiring such devices may have the means of producing the same wherever the iron can be obtained, and the clamp device can be put on or taken off almost instantly with awrench or other suitable tool.

Having thus described my invention, I claim 2. The combinationof a, fastening device7 j, as new and desire to seeure by Letters Patent'- With the bent arm i of the fastening-rod g, an- Io l. The improved plow attachment, consistgie rod d, and link a., substantially as deing of clamp' ard, and g, eXtension'Z of link scribed. v a, and one or more branches or arms of said CHAUNGEY E. WORLINE. extension l, forming' it Weed-turning attaehlWitnesses: ment to .the plow-beam, substantially as de- H. CAREY WORLINE, scribed. EUNIOE WORLINE. 

